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Dashing Downward

@dashingdownward.bsky.social

Actor. Artist. Historist. Armchairian.🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ He/Him. No DMs unless we know one another in meat space.

created November 12, 2024

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31/8/2025, 2:24:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To be fair I keep hearing pundits say that the Dems need to talk about what they’re for rather than what they’re against. Which is weird because absolutely every one of my Dem acquaintances want every representative to fight this Admin tooth and nail.

28/8/2025, 4:54:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I may end up having to travel to Canada to get my next booster.

28/8/2025, 4:50:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We know what they think. It’s blasted out on every media platform 24/7.

28/8/2025, 4:47:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Political views are about appropriate rates of taxation, how to allocate government resources, or zoning laws. Whether or not brown or LGBTQ+ people are fully human is not about politics but morals.

28/8/2025, 4:43:48 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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But they’re changing the logo of the restaurant I never actually go to!

28/8/2025, 4:38:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s the bullets. The guns just make them go really fast.

28/8/2025, 4:37:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s cute that they equate not being able to afford a roof with crime.

27/8/2025, 4:04:50 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

It seems that no matter how often we say this they don’t seem to get the message.

27/8/2025, 4:01:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Refugees are not the source of their problems. Conservative economic policies are.

27/8/2025, 4:01:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

I think its continued existence is counter to its ideal. Burn it down. Build something new.

27/8/2025, 3:54:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 12:57:33 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Because I want to live in a nation with educated, healthy, prosperous people.

27/8/2025, 12:57:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 12:54:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The low flow toilet.

27/8/2025, 12:50:48 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

*block*

27/8/2025, 12:45:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Theatre.

22/8/2025, 3:17:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

He thinks they’re uniformed street cops instead of a Federal Bureau of Investigation.

22/8/2025, 3:16:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Because even with tariffs, it’s still more cost-effective to produce overseas.

22/8/2025, 3:14:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

A quick look at my profile would probably answer your question.

22/8/2025, 3:12:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey, Second Amendment fanatics. Isn’t this the thing you’ve been so worried about all this time?

21/8/2025, 9:05:58 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

20/8/2025, 2:51:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

When will they start arresting undocumented pale European folks?

20/8/2025, 2:48:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

If Russia didn’t want Ukraine as an enemy they could just leave them alone for a change. They wouldn’t want to join NATO if not for Russia’s aggression and expansionism.

19/8/2025, 2:22:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

NY despises Trump. This can only backfire on Cuomo.

19/8/2025, 2:14:19 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

“Just lie back and enjoy it, baby.”

19/8/2025, 2:08:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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U.S., you’re breaking my heart.

11/8/2025, 4:07:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fumigate it thoroughly.

11/8/2025, 1:32:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

They read from a grimoire during ceremonies in which they cast spells, engage in symbolic rituals, use enchanted water, burn candles and incense in the interests of spiritual purification or remotely influencing events.

11/8/2025, 1:29:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

I never used Penske to begin with, but this makes sure I don’t.

11/8/2025, 1:24:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

I take gabapentin for a nerve problem. Never had a problem with it, happily enough.

10/8/2025, 3:24:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Check out the injury and fatality rate with aspirin.

9/8/2025, 5:23:56 PM | 26 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

True. But we CAN accuse him of flaming hypocrisy.

9/8/2025, 5:22:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Someone CAN. They just won’t.

8/8/2025, 12:58:54 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Lawyer up!

8/8/2025, 12:57:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Yet.

7/8/2025, 3:42:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Some people learn all the wrong lessons from history.

7/8/2025, 3:38:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trickle down economics is a failed idea too.

7/8/2025, 3:35:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

7/8/2025, 5:09:04 AM | 43855 12446 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Brownshirts.

7/8/2025, 3:31:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.

7/8/2025, 1:51:20 PM | 23454 8063 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

We know what his word is worth.

7/8/2025, 3:29:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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4/8/2025, 4:36:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It frustrates me that US voters need to be marketed to rather than them stepping-up and taking some responsibility for their own governance. You don’t need propaganda and spoon-feeding if you simply pay attention.

4/8/2025, 4:35:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

There are no more rules. Fight dirty.

4/8/2025, 4:29:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The new exhibit will talk about the impeachments being SO UNFAIR and HOAXES fabricated by THE DEEP STATE.

4/8/2025, 4:28:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Uncle Duke (@uncleduke1969.bsky.social) reposted

me: *reaches for spoon* spoon: you doing ok? you look tired

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4/8/2025, 3:37:59 PM | 243 55 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe if we post more about it the GOP will grow some morals. Not holding my breath, though.

4/8/2025, 4:22:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The GOP is relying on the American short memory and hopes it will blow over. Let’s remember.

4/8/2025, 2:21:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I will never forgive anybody for not voting Harris where their vote would have made a difference. Come at me with blaming her and get blocked.

4/8/2025, 2:20:03 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s so bloody performative. It will have no beneficial effect on any kid’s education. Nobody will be the better for it. It’s just a signal that Evangelicals have marked their territory.

4/8/2025, 2:15:29 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry, J. I just can’t do it. Forgive me.

4/8/2025, 2:10:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Fascists gonna fascist.

4/8/2025, 2:08:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m going to add to my will that my obituary is to be written by a human. I will resist AI even in death.

4/8/2025, 2:02:24 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes. Yes they will. They are.

4/8/2025, 2:01:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

NO Vice President is going to distance themselves from their own President’s policies. It’s pretty much their job to support them. There were two items on the menu. Meatloaf again and ground glass on shit. Easiest decision ever.

4/8/2025, 1:57:02 AM | 16 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Did we stutter?

4/8/2025, 1:43:07 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can’t stand her.

2/8/2025, 1:01:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Knowing nothing about it was one of the primary qualifications for the job.

31/7/2025, 1:35:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social)

Wake me in January 2029.

31/7/2025, 1:33:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Goodby HIPAA

31/7/2025, 1:30:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The only way not to be complicit is to live off the grid.

31/7/2025, 1:27:43 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Smite evil people.

31/7/2025, 1:26:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s part of the Protestant marriage ceremony in the Book of Common Prayer. www.bcponline.org/PastoralOffi...

31/7/2025, 1:26:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

In two weeks.

31/7/2025, 1:16:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuck all the way off and then some O’Leary.

30/7/2025, 4:16:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m overwhelmed by The Great Firehose of Suck and have little hope we can recover. I’m not quite sure what to do about the despair. A sort of ironic detachment seems to be my default.

30/7/2025, 4:15:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I attended a talk you gave at a con in Santa Rosa, CA in like 1980.

30/7/2025, 4:11:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*pops-in a CD and smiles*

30/7/2025, 4:08:57 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Couch surfing is still “unhoused”.

28/7/2025, 4:15:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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AI technology doesn’t excite me in the least.

28/7/2025, 4:10:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They flooded the zone with anti-Clinton sentiments to sabotage Trump? 4-D chess there. Diabolical!

28/7/2025, 2:34:47 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Veering?

28/7/2025, 2:32:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This.

28/7/2025, 2:30:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nobody there wants to play with him.

28/7/2025, 1:43:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Folks can watch something else if they like. Maybe dial-up a Russell Brand performance.

28/7/2025, 1:37:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The stress from worrying too much about all the things which could shorten my life could shorten my life.

27/7/2025, 7:44:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At this point I can’t imagine what would convince deniers that anthropogenic climate change is real.

27/7/2025, 6:15:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ever since 2016 there has been a stubborn third of the nation which will lick the soles of his boot, no matter what.

27/7/2025, 6:12:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think I’m finally tired of social media. (scrolls some more)

27/7/2025, 6:10:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social)

Bored with the “Leftist” vs. “Liberal” shit. We’re all on the same fucking side even though many of our representatives are weak and venal. It’s creating a division among the ranks that we can’t afford.

27/7/2025, 6:09:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

I return the sentiment.

27/7/2025, 6:04:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Part of my education as a child was Tom Lehrer. Indeed a significant portion of my worldview was influenced by his work. He retired from music really early in his long life, but he cast a long and weird shadow. I’m grateful that he shared his talent and wit with us.

27/7/2025, 6:04:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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By “the victims” do they mean the Johns?

27/7/2025, 5:01:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah. I know. It’s been explained to me ad infinitum by enough contrarian edgelords looking to create divisions. I’m sick of having the term thrown at me like an epithet from both ends of the spectrum. I know what I mean by it and I’m proud of it.

27/7/2025, 4:55:34 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And it wasn’t even over the act. It was over lying to Congress about it (when that mattered). Since the Whitewater investigations came up with diddly squat they had to nail him on SOMETHING.

27/7/2025, 1:45:25 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I shall remain a liberal. They’re just wrong. I think the term they’re looking for is “centrist”.

27/7/2025, 1:44:09 AM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dashing Downward (@dashingdownward.bsky.social) reply parent

(European)

27/7/2025, 1:43:07 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve spent my nearly sixty years identifying as a liberal. To me that meant that I was socially progressive and in favor of an economy much like socially democratic Europe nations. All of a sudden lefties are hurling it at me like an insult.

27/7/2025, 1:37:06 AM | 147 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t watch TV anymore. It’s run by Big Ugly.

24/7/2025, 4:13:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope it has a happy ending.

23/7/2025, 2:52:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I find your lack of face disturbing.

23/7/2025, 2:50:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*flips frantically through the Holy Bible searching for anti-vaccine passages*

23/7/2025, 2:46:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ohio Crackers

22/7/2025, 3:49:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_No...

18/7/2025, 3:58:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ask Katie Johnson is there’s evidence of wrongdoing.

18/7/2025, 1:22:20 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What does it consist of? Further militarizing law enforcement and empowering them to wipe their asses with the fourth amendment?

17/7/2025, 5:09:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What’s next? Obama’s tan suit?

17/7/2025, 5:07:16 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I noticed the neutral/rightward shift on NPR and all along I was thinking this very thing - that it will not save them.

17/7/2025, 5:05:51 PM | 3 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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It equates with virile masculinity to them.

17/7/2025, 5:00:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view